Institute

Founded in 1994, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin is one of the more than 80 research institutes administered by the Max Planck Society. It is dedicated to the study of the history of science and aims to understand scientific thinking and practice as historical phenomena.

People

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science comprises scholars across all Departments and Research Groups, as well as an Administration team, IT Support, Research IT Group, and Research Coordination and Communications team.

Publications & Resources

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) engages with the research community and broader public, and is committed to open access.

This section provides access to published research results and electronic sources in the history of science. It is also a platform for sharing ongoing research projects that develop digital tools.

Researchers at the Institute benefit from an internal library service. The Institute’s research is also made accessible to the wider public through edited Feature Stories and the Mediathek’s audio and video content.

News & Events

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science frequently shares news, including calls for papers and career opportunities. The Media & Press section highlights press releases and the Institute's appearances in national and global media. Public events—including colloquia, seminars, and workshops—are shown on the events overview.

IT Developer (Mar 2017-Mar 2019)

In LoGaRT, he has improved considerably the Chinese full text search performance and is gradually refactoring the existing monolithic architecture to micro service for more reliability, scalability, and availability.

Prior to coming to MPIWG, he was a chief software developer at Xinosys, a Taiwanese IT firm, where he independently developed Patisco, a web service for middlemen. Since then, Patisco has been supporting over 700 companies spread throughout North America, Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan. During his time in the private sector, Calvin engaged in software community activities. Furthermore, he recruited new team members and led the team to develop mobile solutions.